iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I mean in my head you do like 200 days of the year

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hear Bob Sykora read from UTOPIANS IN LOVE on Episode 92! Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522 @bobsykora.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social

from "Self Portrait as Utopian"

When I'm truly beautiful
I'll believe anything. The great

trundle of history eventually
gallops in the right direction,

doesn't it?

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Agreed! With the important caveat that # 4 is the most horrifying film I’ve ever watched

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean it’s annual viewing in our house

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my wife, watching Lord of the Rings for the first time: “ok so this is just Twilight for boys”

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW THE LINE BREAK @bobsykora.bsky.social and I talk about my book, then read poems that remind us of each other 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/4ZKe... SC: soundcloud.com/user-2642861...

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Chris Has A Book Coming And Other Poems

Podcast Episode · The Line Break · September 22 · 1h 1m

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ugh what excellent time for it—lol the idea of the pairing sent me all sorts of places bc they’re both awfully high in my personal canon

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

are you doing them both at the same time???

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“like a poetry of boogers stuck to your face”!

LAMENTING A PARTY
Like an absurd round of applause in the middle of a funeral the echo of my river appears, overturning your boat, and the night out drinking with friends turns into the stench of a dry rat playing cards.
The wall's skin sweats out my name; you lose perspective in the distance;
I'm the fire that consumes the stroller and you the child saved by many hands
dirty, but hands nevertheless.
The boneless punishment chugs down your laugh; like a poetry of boogers stuck to your face I blind myself to the world
I plow through branches in an abandoned language: my body is a spyglass, my veins, sleepless oars.
The paper I'm writing on slits me; whoever reads these words is making them up.
I am the ghost of the funny face you cast into oblivion, I am the beakless swan who eats through his wings.

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

unfortunately much less cooler it just means I was at finengan’s wake book club

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have another idea for you.

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can’t unsubscribe with enough fury

text from email in my inbox:

Linkedin News
Announcing the 100 best MBA programs
These are the 100 best B-schools around the...

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

finally had a chance to listen & so grateful to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for the sweetness and thoughtfulness and laughs—I had great time when we recorded but a double delight to hear us spending time with the longer, more unwieldy poems in the book & all the places your reading of it took us!

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Game Over Books @gameoverbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

thinking about my old roommate playing that truck soccer video game

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Listen to Episode 92: Bob Sykora (Of the Poet and the Archive, Love and Community, and the Lens of American Utopias) here: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522 #poetry 📚💙🎙️ @bobsykora.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social

On Utopians in Love
"1 could have written about different things these communities were doing.
But I was thinking, I'm always thinking, about love."
BOB SYKORA, EPISODE 92

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 09/09/2026

It’s release day for Laterals. I hope you’ll consider picking up a copy. 406press.com/product/late...

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Laterals - .406 Press

Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Of Oneida, of heartbreak, of hotel rooms and mansions, of travelling to research poems, of Utopians & dragon flies & the seas turned to lemonade & &! Hear @bobsykora.bsky.social read from his gorgeous collection UTOPIANS IN LOVE @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522

Author photo of Bob Sykora in brown cableknit sweater and cover image of UTOPIANS IN LOVE

Text:

Episode 92: Bob Sykora (Of the Poet and the Archive, Love and Community, and the Lens of American Utopias)
UTOPIANS IN LOVE
BOB SYKORA
Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think about this essay a lot. About the low-level stress & aggravation literally everything is now designed to incite & maintain. What this constant emotional histamine response to our digital-logistical environment does to us, how it degrades our days. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can’t wait for you to hear this episode with @bobsykora.bsky.social!! 📚💗💗

Heart graphic and the text:

(sneak peek)
"..to think about love is always to think about politics and community."
EPISODE 92 WITH BOB SYKORA

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The old heat is in the heart. John Wieners

Procrastination

I feel tomorrow it may be. Tonight. Later
ah when the world is ripe then will descend
o letters of fire fall on my head.

Not now with my arm against the hard brown desk.
Go on: it has begun. The old heat is in the heart.
This is the new start you long awaited.

The traceries of feeling interlock the chest.

The eyes become onyx and pearl.
The night falls at noon.
Too soon leaves break from their branches.

They whistle in your ears.
The spirit is near, and the mind
grasps upward to the full sun

wheeling in the heavens.
At one with the cosmos, you are a star shining
In the blue of the day-time sky-light.

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

trying to be more and less online at the same time

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

literally every time i ride a bike:

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The Line Break @thelinebreak.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW PODCAST reading some truly exciting poetry thinking about writing poetry @bobsykora.bsky.social reads @summ.bsky.social @thecorlew.bsky.social reads @marromasco.bsky.social 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/6xwU...

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reading better towards writing newer

Podcast Episode · The Line Break · August 25 · 1h 1m

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ugh sometimes I miss posting

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

accurate 😂

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Spike Lee's BE HOLDING Nia DeCosta's BLACK PASTORAL Robert Eggers' UTOPIANS IN LOVE Zack Cregger's SCARY NO SCARY Jordan Peele's WITH DEER Ari Aster's AASE'S DEATH Ben Stiller's LUNCH POEMS

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The Line Break @thelinebreak.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

NEW EPISODE @bobsykora.bsky.social & @thecorlew.bsky.social are thrilled to be joined by @kebpoet.bsky.social to talk about their debut collection, BLOODROOM, horror movies, and more! 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/5i8z...

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screaming in the BLOODROOM with Kay E. Bancroft

Podcast Episode · The Line Break · July 14 · 54m

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The Line Break @thelinebreak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

NEW EPISODE for the second time ever, we have a returning guest! @isaacpickell.bsky.social joins Bob & Chris to talk about his upcoming collection, The Smallest Mistake We Call Human. 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/3B6k...

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the thinnest line between writing and humanity (feat Isaac Pickell)

Podcast Episode · The Line Break · July 28 · 1h 25m

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Yes!!!! + found a link on the lecture (amodern.net/article/spea...), and he also specifically referred to a mondegreen as a "generative failure," which I love so much

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

At AWP like 2 years ago Douglas Kearney gave this sick lecture and he briefly talked about a word or phrase for when you mishear a lyric in a song and it’s driving me so crazy rn that I can’t remember the word or phrase even though I think i remember which notebook I wrote the notes in

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Rememberist @rememberist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Harley Elliott. Poet. Artist. Man of Kansas.

The Citizen Game, a poem by Harley Elliott

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

James Tate

The Immortals

None of us have felt good this year:
pus around the eyes,
sores that come and go with no explanation.
But we still believe we will come through it!
I signal this news
by lifting a little finger.

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